ECONOMIC PROGRESS

How to achieve economic progress is being debated today. We all want to progress physically, mentally and intellectually. So we need progress which is all inclusive, for all communities , and progress needs to be holistic progress, of which economic materialistic physical progress is one part. Economic progress cannot stand alone, all round progress is needed to make it sustainable.

For a banyan tree, having so many branches standing high and low, with high roots, the same juice of life is obtained from the earth and distributed as per requirement of different parts of the tree, that is why the growth of tree is sustainable.

How to decide about high roots of economy ? High roots of economy lie in considering welfare of all and contribution of all as per their pure nature, with collective conscience working in the larger interest. Today's economists are searching ideas in the market place and trying to weigh them through empirical tests and not on above time tested principals.

Benefits are weighed on individual considerations, what are the gains to me and my limited world ! But they do talk about detachment, tolerance , mutual respect and absence of fear as the basis of judging our path of economic progress. But they do not understand that these qualities can be inculcated in the masses only if we surrender our false ego embodying the universal self, understand our pious and devilish tendencies and in ignorance of oneness of humanity we have necessary controls in place.